DOMINICK
OLIVETO was born on December 24, 1906 in New Jersey, the son of
Italian-born parents, Antonio and Maria Oliveto. Newspaper and other
written accounts show a spelling of Olivetto which is incorrect. His
father had come to America in 1901 from Muro Lucano, Italy and in 1905
sent for his mother, two older brothers, William (Vito) and Philip (Felice),
and sister Anna Maria and Catherine. Dominick was born the following
year, and he was followed in turn by Rose, Angelina (Lena), Lucy, and
Daniel.

Anthony
Oliveto found work in the Pennsylvania Railroad freight yards that were
located just south of the Market Street Ferry. The Oliveto family lived
at 214 Taylor Avenue when the 1910 Census was enumerated, and had moved
to 510 Federal Street by 1914. When the older Oliveto boys registered
for the draft in June of 1917 and through at least 1929 the family lived
at 422 Stevens
Street.

The
1927 and 1929 Camden City Directories show Dominick Oliveto living at
422 Stevens
Street with his parents and brothers. In 1927 he was working as
shipper, most likely at Campbell Soup. The 1929 directory states that he
was working as a salesman for the Camden Electric Appliance & Radio
Company at 449 South
5tb Street, a business owned by John Girgenti of 323 Benson
Street.

In
April of 1930 Dominick Oliveto and his wife Mae were living at 4104
Westfield Avenue in Camden. He was employed as the chauffer to a private
family, according to the Census records. The census records his
name as "Olivett".

At
some point Dominick Oliveto became involved in running numbers, possibly
around 1927 when he was working as a shipper. In 1932 he was arrested on
gambling charges and fined $100, and was arrested on a larceny charge in
1937. Newspaper accounts state that he was living
at 444 Royden
Street in February of 1933, a short walk from the bar at
601 South 4th Street (the southwest corner of South 4th & Royden Streets)
owned by Giacinto Sciamanna and known locally as Sherman's Cafe. This
bar would become a regular haunt of Marco
Reginelli.

Marco
Reginelli came to Camden sometime in the 1930s. By June
of 1939 Reginelli had established himself as a power in Camden and
South Jersey organized crime circles, and Dominick Olivetto was his
trusted lieutenant. The 1940
Polk's City Directory shows Reginelli
living at the Plaza Hotel at 500 Cooper
Street. He had purchased a home at 2403 Baird Boulevard at the time the
1943 directory was published, and was still there in 1947..

The
1947 Camden City directory shows Dominick Oliveto as Dominick Olivette,
living at 1151 Magnolia Avenue in Parkside.
He was then, according to the Directory, operating a garage at 517 Main
Street in North Camden.
The Directory gives his wife's name as Rose.

In
the years after World War II up until his death in 1956, Marco Reginelli,
whose specialty was gambling, all but ran the Philadelphia family from
his base in Camden, New Jersey upon his promotion to under-boss. While in
control of the Philly family, Reginelli promoted many of his gambling
associates to mid-level management positions including Angelo Bruno, a
numbers specialist.

Highly
respected in Mafia circles, Marco Reginelli died from natural causes on
May 26th of 1956, at Baltimore MD. He was interred at Calvary Cemetery
in what was then Delaware Township (present-day Cherry Hill)
NJ. Dominick Oliveto, with the consent of Philadelphia boss Joe Ida
and Vito Genovese of New York, took overReginelli's
operations after his death, maintaining the rackets that he had built.
Oliveto was one of
the many Mafiosi arrested at the Appalachin conference in upstate New
York in November of 1957, and in fact had come to the meeting in
conference with Vito Genovese.

Dominick
Oliveto was still residing at 1151 Magnolia Avenue in December of 1957
when he was called to Trenton to testify before a grand jury about the
Appalachin conference. By this time he was the father of three
children.

After
the Appalachin arrest and the attention it brought with it, Joseph Ida
fled the country to Italy. Dominick Oliveto, coming under similar
scrutiny from local and federal authorities,
stepped aside. Angelo Bruno would take control of the
Philadelphia and South Jersey mob.

Last
a resident of 6401 Walton Avenue in Pennsauken, New Jersey, Dominick
Oliveto died on January 26, 1969 and was buried at Calvary Cemetery in
Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

Camden Courier-Post *
February 2, 1933

Suspended
Jail Sentence is Given Operator Where 17 Were Taken in Raid

Pleading
non vult to charge of operating a 'numbers" headquarters
raided by the police last July, Dominic
Olivette, 28, of 444 Royden
street, was fined $100 and given a suspended sentence of six months
in criminal court yesterday.

In
police court the day following the raid Olivette was fined $100 by
Judge Garfield
Pancoast on charges of violating Section 422 of the city ordinances
prohibiting disorderly persons from congregating in a building.

Olivette
paid the fine and was later indicted by the grand jury following an
investigation by Prosecutor Clifford A. Baldwin. Judge Shay,
in imposing the fine, refused Olivette's plea that he be allowed to pay
the sum on installments.

One
other man charged with "numbers" writing was fined $100 with the
privilege of paying at a $2 weekly rate. He is Herbert Lantry, 35, of
519 Ray street, arrested by
Lieutenant Herbert
Anderson November 26. He was held for the grand jury by Judge
Pancoast when arraigned in police court.